AMT 85
Released: 09 Apr 2021.
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Special attention items:
AMT 85
- Please refer to this help page for more details on the new .NET Core based AMT Control Center and AMT Application Center. This includes information about the required Hosting Bundle.
- Use of the .NET Core based AMT File Controller requires PowerShell 7. You can download PowerShell 7 here. More information about debugging PowerShell scripts with PowerShell 7 can be found here. Customers used to working with the PowerShell ISE should find this page useful.
| Product | Cat | Subcat | Description | Type | Version | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Jobs/Batches | 330131 If there was only one AMT Batch Controller, there was clearly no need to check which should lead regarding the scanning of objects. This happened nevertheless, which could result in misleading error information. If there is only one AMT Batch Controller, it is now always leading and scanning for leading Batch Controller no longer takes place. |
CHANGE | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Developer | Database | C2101-008 PREVIEW: Changes have been made to support full DB Field Type implementation in AMT, of which one is visible to the customer: If an AMT Reorganize Analyze is run on a Field Type change, like ALPHA to NUMERIC, a warning is now shown that this may cause data loss, whereas this was not mentioned before. |
CHANGE | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Developer | Database | 328800 PREVIEW: Table fields in AMT Developer Studio now have a property DbFieldType. For STRING fields DbFieldType can now be changed to VARCHAR(MAX) instead of TEXT on MS SQL Server. |
NEW | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Control Center | Server Control | 330225 The AMT File Controller raised errors at startup and shutdown, because the Named Pipe it used was not stopping and cleaning its thread correctly. The Named Pipe implementation has been revised throughout the AMT products. |
FIX | AMT 85 | High |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Jobs/Batches | C2101-073 The check is now performed only when the file is created, which prevents the incorrect behaviour from occurring. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | 330261 AMT programs crashed if a Basepath with value Null was read from the database. Null values are now accepted for Basepath reading. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Generator | Various | 330497 / C2102-025 In the AMT Generator, .ToAlphaValue is suffixed to variables used in concatenations. ToJson and ToXml, however, return C# strings and in those cases the ToAlphaValue resulted in a C# error. Generation of a suffixed .ToAlphaVar method call has been disabled for these class methods. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | 329583 / 329097 Clicking on a button did not lead to a change in appearance until after the release of the mouse-button, because OnClick was the only event that was handled. Event handling has now been split up into a OnMouseDown and a OnMouseUp, which results in a more intuitive look and feel. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | 330293 / 330393 / 330313 / 330216 Named Pipes logged errors and warnings in the logging, which were difficult to address as the same functionality was coded differently in various AMT products. As a next step to solving any further problems with Named Pipes, the code has been refactored and is reused between services to improve stability and maintainability. |
FIX | AMT 85 | High |
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | 329967 In AMT Screens RTQuery, re-selecting a table in Table Mode, after switching to Query Mode and executing a select query for a different table, didn't produce updated data from the previous Table Mode selection. Switching back from Query to Table Mode now updates the previous table correctly. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | C2103-012 AID, AMT's automatic deployment tool, could not process parameters to start generated scripts. A column has been added to the parameters tab, 'Top level parameters', in which users can input their parameters for a PowerShell script. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Developer | Various | C2103-013 In the AMT Developer Studio Command Line Interface, for 'Import file' the option 'FNAME=...' now supports multiple files. The filenames need to be enclosed in double quotes and separated by commas. Also, they are all loaded in the same application and must be of the same type/version. |
NEW | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | C2103-016 The PdfPrinting library was called through AmtCallDll, making it less efficient than it could be. Now that the PrintService has been migrated to .NET Core, this library can be called directly, so the call through AmtCallDll has been replaced with directly loading and calling the .NET Core version of this library. |
CHANGE | AMT 85 | Low |
| AMT COBOL | Developer | Database | C2103-023 Floating point database field types have been implemented in AMT COBOL. Field Type 'FloatDouble' and 'FloatSingle' can now be used in an AMT COBOL table, view or stored procedure. These are 8 or 4 byte ISO standard floating point types and can be used to store COBOL COMP-2 and COMP-1 data. The AMT Query object now supports 'SetParamDouble' and 'ValueAsDouble' methods for setting and retrieving these values in SQL statements. |
NEW | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Control Center | Configuration | C2103-025 Changing the 'Base setup' in the system configuration of the new ASP.NET Core Control Center caused an error to appear, because 'CWA Size' expected an INT32 instead of a string. The error has been fixed by setting the value to 0 if an empty string is encountered. The settings can now be changed again. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Control Center | Configuration | C2103-028 Trying to add a new printer in the new ASP.NET Core AMT Control Center caused an error, because one of the properties was set to 0 whereas a list was expected. The error has been fixed by providing the required list. New printers can now be added again. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | Web Client | 330493 Control DropDownList did not inherit the font styles set from the Combobox in the web client. The font styles set has been added to the DropDownList. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | 329549 / C2103-034 In a Combobox, the 'OnSelect' event was executed every time the 'Up' and 'Down' keys were used. Now, the 'Onselect' is no longer executed on the use of the 'Up' and 'Down' keys, but only when focus is lost or a value has been clicked. |
CHANGE | AMT 85 | High |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Control Center | Various | C2103-035 The old AMT Control Center and AMT Application Center were made using ASP.NET, which depends on .NET Framework. The new AMT Control Center and AMT Application Center websites have been made using ASP.NET Core, replacing the ASP.NET websites. |
NEW | AMT 85 | High |
| AMT LION | Runtime | Various | C2103-037 In MsSql, runtime errors could occur for Cursor Queries on remote databases whose name contained a hyphen. Now for MsSql, '[]' are added around the database name in queries at runtime, so the name is escaped and does not raise an error anymore. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Developer | Web Services | C2103-042 Reloading WSDls created a new AmtWebserviceSupport.exe for each call. Now, only one instance is started and used. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Jobs/Batches | C2103-044 A new property has been introduced in the ComScript module on the Job object: 'StartedDateTime'. This property contains the start time of the job by the AMT Batch Controller. |
NEW | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | C2103-046 Because of the recent (and on-going) .NET Core move, the AMT Batch Controller needs to switch from PowerShell 5.x to PowerShell 7 for the execution of PowerShell scripts in order to support .NET Core fully. Starting from AMT 85 the AMT Batch Controller will require PowerShell 7 to be installed for the execution of PowerShell scripts within the AMT Batch Controller. PowerShell 7 can be downloaded from: Releases · PowerShell/PowerShell · GitHub For debugging PowerShell scripts with PowerShell 7 you have to use Visual Studio Code: Using Visual Studio Code for PowerShell Development - PowerShell | Microsoft Docs The PowerShell ISE can no longer be used for PowerShell 7, but there is a PowerShell ISE mode in Visual Studio Code: How to replicate the ISE experience in Visual Studio Code - PowerShell | Microsoft Docs |
CHANGE | AMT 85 | High |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Reo | C2103-049 When index logic was added to an existing index, or AMT Reorganize was run after a datapump with duplicate keys outside the index logic part in a unique index, AMT Reorganize gave an SQL error or the flag fields were not updated correctly. Now the flag fields are updated correctly and index logic is retained when 'dropindexes' options are used, so the datapump can use the logic and AMT Reorganize doesn't need to recalculate the index logic. Also the tables are now processed in sorted order, so it is easier to find what exactly is happening during large changes. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Various | C2103-050 Authorization security for the new .NET Core AMT Application Center web API has been improved, so that it now resembles the new .NET Core AMT Control Center. |
CHANGE | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Jobs/Batches | C2103-054 In ComScript 'Job.QueueName' was blank, if read from a running job. Job.QueueName now contains the queue from which it is running or queued in. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Various | C2103-055 The ASP.NET Core Application Center did not always log errors it encountered, because error action only handled 'GET' requests, whereas it should also have handled 'POST' requests. All errors are now logged correctly. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | 330533 The AMT Transaction Server occasionally crashed on an invalid received message, due to an incorrect JSON value. Now the AMT Transaction Server logs the invalid message and keeps on running. |
FIX | AMT 85 | High |
| AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | 330524 / C2103-064 The statement: variable = variable * -1 went wrong if variable was of Binary-1 type. The statement works again. |
FIX | AMT 85 | High |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Developer | Database | C2103-067 Preview available for DbFieldType property on Table fields in AMT Developer Studio. Add PREVIEWDBFIELDTYPE=TRUE to Lion.ini to activate the preview. With this preview it is possible to change the field type a field gets in the database, like CHAR or VACHAR for Alpha fields and NUMERIC or INT for Numeric fields. The default type shown is the type AMT Reorganize chose in the past. This default behaviour can be changed by a new Application Option. |
NEW | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | AmtTools | Various | 330541 The AMT Setup used to update the web.config files for the AMT Application Center and AMT Control Center to use the correct URLs for the business logic. This was missing for the new ASP.NET Core websites. Setup has been updated to change the appsettings.json files for the new websites. |
CHANGE | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Control Center | Configuration | C2103-078 Adding application aliases, database aliases, or database filegroups in the new ASP.NET Core Control Center caused an error, because the JSON parser expected numbers and got strings. The error has been fixed. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Developer | Various | C2103-083 Loading the WSDL has been placed in a different assembly because of the move to .NET Core. Also, in old style webservices WSDLs, popup menu options have been reduced, of which most had already been disabled. |
CHANGE | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | C2103-048 The AmtCallDll referenced some libraries it no longer needed. These references have been removed. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | Various | 330526 Response for a Consumable Web Service with elementFormDefault=' unqualified' was not deserialized correctly. Generation of the response class has been corrected to handle 'elementFormDefault='unqualified' correctly. |
FIX | AMT 85 | High |
| AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | 330270 / C2103-090 Forms in the web client were refreshed unnecessarily on transactions. Forms themselves are not refreshed anymore, they only perform an AJAX-request to execute transactions. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Control Center | Various | C2103-091 The new ASP.NET Core AMT Control Center and AMT Application Center websites were showing the same, incorrect, error message: 'Unexpected end of JSON input'. The error messages have been corrected to show relevant error messages. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | Runtime | AmtScreens | 330571 In Comboboxes, Event 'OnSelect' was not executed if a new value was selected by pressing the 'Up' or 'Down' keys and the Combobox was then closed by 'Enter', pressing the arrow or clicking elsewhere. The 'OnSelect' is now only fired when the Combobox is closed and the value has been changed. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | C2103-096 Bug reports on SQL errors were not accurate, they did not show the right stack trace. Bug reports on SQL errors now show the exact location of the errors. |
CHANGE | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Runtime | Various | 330539 / C2103-101 Former OS2200: the screen showed question marks in fields, caused by HEX 00 characters sent by the COBOL program. The HEX 00 characters have now been replaced by spaces. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Control Center | Configuration | 330577 Creating a new print queue in the new ASP.NET Core AMT Control Center was sometimes not accepted because of differences in the handling of time-zones between various JSON flavours. The AMT Control Center has been updated to properly handle time zones. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT COBOL | Generator | Various | 330182 / C2103-107 The AMT Generator stopped because folder Binaries\Server\Bin couldn't be deleted. The folder Binaries\Server\Bin was deleted twice, the second attempt at deletion has now been removed. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Developer | Various | C2103-108 The hyperlinks in the documentation node no longer worked when they were clicked. Instead an error dialog was shown. Now the hyperlinks start the browser again. Also, the links in the 'about' dialogs work again, and opening scripts externally. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Developer | Various | C2103-109 Double-click no longer worked after a recent change, if the target object in the relation list was the current object. It should have taken the source object to jump to. Now the double-click checks the source/target column to detect which value to use in the open statement. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |
| AMT LION | AMT COBOL | Runtime | Jobs/Batches | C2103-111 Program or Report stays running even after the report is done, because of a timing issue with updating the state in the database. This has been solved by adding a retry mechanism. |
FIX | AMT 85 | Medium |